Tag: zionism
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On Israel’s 78th Birthday
Last Tuesday we celebrated the 78th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. This comes at a time when there has been a notable shift in the feelings of Americans toward the State. A Pew research poll conducted on April 7 of this year found that 60% of Americans have an unfavorable view…
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Happy Birthday Israel
When Theodore Herzl conceived of the idea of a Jewish State, he hoped that it would solve the “Jewish problem” — that antisemitism would be eradicated if Jews could become a normal people in a normal nation state. Yet here we are, 77 years after the founding of the State of Israel, and antisemitism is…
Rabbi Marc D. Rudolph 